[dylan604]

Something I was thinking about where if I was the day-to-day employee suddenly forced to work with a brand new employee that you know will only be working there for one day (meaning they won't be super motivated to really dig in), I'd be pissed. Lots of comments in the thread about low morale for those engineers being forced to do this, but not much discussion about the reverse direction. (Makes since since this is a site focused on those engineers.)

This person claiming to standing around not knowing what to do just shows that they really are trying to do anything. You've been assigned a task, do it. If you don't know, ask. They aren't trying to be better because they know at the end of the one day their nightmare will be over.